TOPIC: Attendance yesterday.

Shameful.
Less than 4,000. Surely there should have been at least 5744 there.
Ah well, so much for our massive loyal support.
Still, there are some people on here who think the glory hunting fans will return to Brunton Park after the meaningless cup tie.
We'll see.

Maybe they forgot to count the season ticket holders this tme

Superb! BOYCOTT the liars out of the club!

Very disappointing crowd , let's get behind Kc and the lads

I think you have to look at the bigger picture on this one.

It was always going to be the one that people swerved in my opinion. On a run of home games and after the Barnet ticket stub one. Also manageable away games at Hartlepool and York. Then there is the spectre of Liverpool on the horizon and the tickets that were paid for this week.

It's expensive to follow your team week in week out and we have had a particularly busy two or three weeks. I guess that a lot of us just saw this one as the one to skip.

Jumpforfun wrote:
And it was raining

Yes, too many games early in the season, Man U v Liverpool on TV, lack of good will, all contribute, I think.
As the season shapes up and we emerge as play-off contenders, the crowds will creep up towards 5k.
I think around 4000 is a decent crowd given our recent history.
Once you get down to crowds regularly of about 2000, which we have in the past, that's when it gets really depressing.

2,000 less would be better! Hit the incompetent c.nts (Jenkins) in the pocket!!

Now remember 4200 was our break even point...

Currently I'm not going and neither therefore are children, my children's friends and also friends that i frequently encourage to come with me. I still support CUFC and was heartened to hear of the large crowd on the first day at home.

KC is in my view a capable manager and I am glad to see him make a fist of it with a 'game enough' and spirited squad; good for him. I really do wish him and the players well and they deserve a good deal beter in terms of support.

I just continue to refuse to stomach the 'billionaire scenario' and as such i won't return whilst this goes on. The treatment of Andrew Lapping frustrates me. Since the Jenkings statement i have refused to spend any money on CUFC. I remain frustrated at being misled by those who really control the club.

If there is a billionaire i will of course apologies for my sceptism and doubt and will spend big at the club shop, resume with the blues lotto, buy programs, buy refreshments attend games and get behind the team! Until this happens then i simply choose to not attend games. I'm not saying this is right, i am happy that others choose to get along but for me this is how i choose to deal with it. I wish the club would work to resolve this ridiculous situation.

I have never stayed away from games as part of a protest, as I think it has no impact.
When we are doing well, the crowds go up, when doing badly, they go down.
There have been times when I have given games a miss as I am fed up of watching rubbish, but this is effectively because I can't be bothered and would rather do something else.
If we get drawn against Liverpool in the cup, 6000 people will go, if we are bottom of the league then people will stay away, if we are top of the league they'll come back. Nothing wrong with any of that, just the way it was, is and ever shall be.

I'm not prepared to shell out best part of £20 to have those 3 snigger at me. Doesn't bother me if I miss them playing well or crap (seen plenty of both down the years), just not happy with having the piss taken out of me. Fair play if you still go tho.

Think the lack of away fans is going to be noticeable this season with playing so many Southern based teams.

Aye Matt, the Dagenham lot could all have come on a single bus by the look of them, I didn't count but there looked to be about 60 or 70.

Moorlad wrote:
There was 74 apparently...

mattcufc wrote: It was the lack of home fans that is the major problem... where were 3,000 "fans" who have tickets for the Liverpool game. Splitters...

Northumbrian wrote:
I think the issue is, one week we will have 4500 home fans, and the away team will bring 1000. The next week we will have 4500 home fans, and the away team.will bring less than a hundred, and people will wonder where all our fans have gone.

cufcmike wrote: That wouldn't be understandable if that was the case... but it isn't. There was a sizeable drop in home fans from one week to another ... Barnet hardly took thousand's of away fans either. I'm guessing that it is mainly down to finances with the Liverpool match but it's still incredibly disappointing seeing a drop in home fans given the fact that we are on a decent run and scoring goals.

Two home games in a row, a reasonable away trip (York) and the Liverpool game, all having to be paid for within about a fortnight. I can very easily understand why people will have thought Dagenham was the one they could happily miss going to. But we had 3,800 there, which as has been said, considering we're going quite well, and the entertainment value has been high, is disappointing.

It just shows what has happened in the last few years has annoyed a lot of fans. There were the people who stopped while Abbott was there, those who stopped because the football was bad, then those who won't return until the idiots are gone, and there have been a couple of other reasons as well (Meppen-Walter etc). It is very easy to stop going, and it is also very easy to find other things to fill your time, it is much less easy then to motivate yourself to get back into it.

Very disappointing attendance and a bit worrying if we were to get sub-4,000 crowds for the rest of the season, but I think they'll improve if the team continues to improve.

Anyone know how many fans Luton contributed to the 6,766 attendance for the first game last season?
We only had 4,833 (revised figure) v Cambridge which could be viewed as equally disappointing.

However, 3,871 v Dagenham & Redbridge compares reasonably well with 3,975 v Bury on the same weekend last season and 4,412 (revised figure) v Wimbledon compares favourably to 3,847 v Southend last season, albeit last season's results were dire!